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TikTok
Your best insights are buried in hour-long recordings. Nova extracts the key takeaways as captioned vertical clips — repurpose one webinar across every channel.
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Why TikTok is worth it — the fastest cold-start reach of any platform
TikTok is still the best place to be discovered by people who have never heard of you — the feed is interest-based, not follower-based, so a first post can outrun a channel with a hundred thousand subscribers. That cuts both ways: every clip is judged on its own merits from the first frame, and the clips that survive are the ones that earn a watch-through rather than a scroll.
TikTok format cheat sheet
- Aspect ratio
- 9:16 vertical (1080 × 1920)
- Length that performs
- 21–34s is the reliable sweet spot
- Upload ceiling
- 10 minutes in-app; longer via web upload
- Captions
- Burned-in word-by-word; TikTok's own auto-captions are also indexed
- Safe zones
- Keep text clear of the right rail and the bottom ~15% (caption + handle UI)
- Hashtags
- 3–5 specific ones beat a wall of generic tags
How TikTok decides what gets seen
The feed tests every upload on a small cold audience first and expands only if watch-through and replays hold up — so the first two seconds decide the ceiling, not your follower count.
Completion rate and rewatches carry more weight than likes. A 25-second clip watched to the end beats a 60-second clip abandoned at 20.
TikTok search is a real discovery surface now. On-screen text and the caption are both parsed, so the words you burn into the clip are effectively keywords.
Posting webinar clips on TikTok
Front-load the payoff
Cut so the most surprising line lands in the first two seconds. On TikTok the hook is not an intro to the clip — it IS the clip's first beat, with the setup trimmed off entirely.
Write for the search bar
Put the plain-language phrase someone would type into the on-screen text and the caption. TikTok reads both, and specific phrasing pulls in the audience that actually cares.
Let it loop
End a beat before the natural finish so the clip loops back into itself. A seamless loop quietly doubles watch time without a second of extra footage.
What Nova does for you
Repurpose, don't re-record
Every webinar becomes a stream of short clips for LinkedIn, Reels, and Shorts.
Lead with the takeaway
AI moment detection finds the quotable insights, not the filler.
On-brand captions
Clean, readable captions that keep viewers watching to the end.
Questions? Answers.
How long should a TikTok clip be?
21–34 seconds is the range that consistently performs — long enough to land a complete idea, short enough that most viewers finish it. Longer clips can work when the moment genuinely earns the runtime, but completion rate is the metric that decides your reach, so shorter is the safer default.
Do I need burned-in captions for TikTok?
Yes. A large share of TikTok viewing happens with sound off or in noisy places, and burned-in word-by-word captions measurably hold attention versus bare video. Nova burns them in automatically, timed to the speech, so the clip works muted.
Will TikTok penalise a clip taken from a longer video?
No — repurposing your own long-form is normal and fine. What gets suppressed is content that looks recycled from someone else's platform, so avoid posting with another app's watermark on it. Nova exports clean, so there's no foreign watermark to strip.
Can I use my brand colors?
Paid plans support brand caption colors and fonts so clips match your identity.
Good for talking-head content?
Yes — face-aware reframing is built exactly for single and multi-speaker footage.
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